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Ginger Campbell, MD
Brain Science is hosted by Virginia "Ginger" Campbell, MD (Podcast Hall of Fame 2022). She is an experienced physician with a passion for exploring how recent discoveries in neuroscience are revealing how our brains make us who we are. This podcast is for non-scientists, scientists, and everyone in between. It features interviews and discusses the latest books about the brain.
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Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Dec 15, 2023
This is the 17th Annual Review episode of Brain Science, celebrating the first episode which aired on December 15, 2006. We review the highlights of 2023, which included both new guests and the return …
52:27Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Oct 27, 2023
In the this episode of Brain Science we talk with neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell about his new book Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will. While many neuroscientists and philosophers argue that free will …
1:26:15Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Sep 22, 2023
This month's episode of Brain Science features Thomas Metzinger, author of "The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self." Metzinger is a philosopher with a longstanding interest in …
1:06:36Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Aug 25, 2023
This episode of Brain Science features the return of molecular biologist Seth Grant. We briefly review his decades of research into the complexity of the protein structure of the synapse and then we focus …
1:10:15Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Jul 28, 2023
This episode is our first review of neurotransmitters since episode 8 way back in 2007. We start with some basics of neuron function and brain anatomy, but the meat of the episode is a …
1:06:48Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Jun 23, 2023
This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Luiz Pessoa, author of The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together. This is Pessoa's first book aimed at a general …
1:07:22Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · May 26, 2023
This month's episode is an interview with Cambridge Psychology professor Sander van der Linden, author of "Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity." We discuss the important topic of how …
1:09:21Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Apr 28, 2023
This month's episode is an encore presentation of an interview with neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa discussing his fascinating book "The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration." We explored the surprising role of the amygdala in …
1:05:38Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Mar 24, 2023
This month we have an intriguing interview with Dr. Paco Calvo from the Minimal Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Mercia in Spain. We talk with him about his new book Planta Sapiens: The …
1:16:04Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Feb 24, 2023
In this follow-up interview with molecular biologist Dr. Guy Caldwell we learn more about how the tools of molecular biology are used to unravel questions in neurobiology and provide hope for better treatments for …
1:03:35Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Jan 27, 2023
This month's episode is an encore presentation of an interview with Dr. Guy Caldwell from the University of Alabama. Dr. Caldwell explains how tools from molecular biology make it possible to use the famous …
1:15:59Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Dec 23, 2022
This month's episode (BS 203) celebrates the 16th Anniversary of Brain Science with the annual review episode. This is a listener favorite providing highlights and key ideas from the episodes of Brain Science that …
1:18:29Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Nov 25, 2022
The idea that meditation is a "mind science" is popular, but in this interview Canadian philosopher Evan Thompson argues that this claim does not stand up to either scientific or philosophical scrutiny. As one …
53:08Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Oct 28, 2022
This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with WA (Bill) Harris, author of Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built. We explore how the human brain develops from the fertilized …
1:08:49Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Sep 23, 2022
This month's episode is a discussion with the editors of a fascinating new book Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning. We explore how embodied cognition challenges long standing dualist approaches to …
1:18:55Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Aug 26, 2022
This month's episode is an interview with Batja Mesquita, author of "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions." This is an important book because it describes the evidence that Emotions are not just something people …
1:02:41Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Jul 22, 2022
This month's episode of Brain Science is a free encore playing of my interview with Evan Thompson about his book Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind. We discuss how the …
56:12Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Jul 12, 2022
This is the free transcript for Episode 197 with Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies. For unlimited access to all transcripts and the entire back catalogue of Brain Science sign up for our …
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Jun 20, 2022
This month's episode of Brain Science features an encore playing of my interview with Dr. Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies and Neurobiology for Dummies. It is a great episode for newbies and …
1:03:54Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · May 27, 2022
This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience. Lau talks about shortcomings in current theories about how the …
56:16Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Apr 22, 2022
This month's episode is an interview with David J Anderson from Cal Tech. We talk about his new book The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide US. We talk about how emotion CAN …
1:11:26Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Mar 25, 2022
The neuroscience of grief and grieving is a relatively new field, but one that offers practical discoveries for people of all backgrounds. This month we talk with Mary-Frances O'Connor, author of The Grieving Brain: …
54:01Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Feb 25, 2022
In this month's episode of Brain Science I explore two big picture questions: What does it mean to claim that the Mind is "embodied?" and How does this change our understanding of our place …
17:54Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Jan 28, 2022
This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Nina Kraus, author of "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World." Dr. Kraus has spent 30 years exploring how the …
53:15Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Dec 22, 2021
This is our 15th annual review episode, which highlights the guests and key ideas we have shared in 2021. Interviews included return visits from Jeff Hawkins and David Eagleman. New guests including Anil Seth …
1:20:21Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Nov 24, 2021
This month's episode of Brain Science features David Badre, author of "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done." He gives us an overview of recent research in the field of cognitive control, which …
56:27Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Oct 29, 2021
Neurologist and best-selling author Antonio Damasio is one of our most requested guests. This month we finally had the opportunity to talk about his newest book "Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious," which he …
52:50Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Sep 24, 2021
BS 188 features neuroscientist Anil Seth discussing his new book "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness." We have had many guests talk about consciousness, but Seth represents the newer generation who have actually …
1:14:44Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Aug 27, 2021
BS 187 features bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman. We talk about his latest book "Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain." It is a great overview of the current science of brain …
52:38Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone · Jul 23, 2021
This month's episode features Mark Humphries, author of "The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds." We explore how the brain uses electrical signaling in surprising ways, beginning with a look …
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